EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR STUDENTS

Abstract

This is not a research paper on Emotional Intelligence (EI) but more of a transcript of the 45 minutes session I did online with the students of the University of Nis, Serbia, with the sole purpose of explaining the importance of EI in today’s world. The primary aim of this paper is to address the importance of Emotional Intelligence for students in today’s context by understanding the What, Why and How and for Whom factors of EI. Until a few years back emotions were understood as a psychological process but today medical science has proved that a small section of the brain helps us process our emotions making it both a psychological and physiological process. This explains how the body affects the mind and the mind affects the body. As subjective feelings, emotions make us feel in a particular way: angry, sad, happy, and each of these feelings impacts our performance. To be able to balance these emotions with logic and use them towards the betterment of performance is the purpose of enhancing our emotional intelligence.